Embroidery-seam.



No. 696,540. Patented Abr. I, I902.

13. E. BENTLEY.

EMBROIDERY SEAM.

(Application filed Aug. 7, 1901.) (No Model.)

FIGLL.

WITNESSES 2 INVENTOR Q 'M $7, 7240 ATTORNIEY limitation STATas PATENT @rrrcn.

CHARLES E. BENTLEY, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

EMBRUlDERY=SEAWL SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Itatent No. 696,540, dated April 1, 1902.

Application filed August '7, 1901. Serial No. 71,165. (No model.)

' the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a new and improved embroideryseam designed more especially as an open-work spangle-ornamented seam useful for uniting two pieces of lace or dress goods or other fabric.

The invention will first be described, and then will be particularly defined in claims hereinafter set forth.

Reference is to be made to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a face or plan View of two pieces of fabric united by the spangle retaining threads of the seam. Fig. 2 is a cross-section taken on the line a: a: in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section of the seamthreads and spangles, taken on the line 1 y in Fig. 1.

In the preferred open-work embroideryseam I use two separated and substantially parallel pieces of fabric 1 2, two zigzag crossing upper or needle threads 3 4, two corresponding or alined zigzag crossing under or shuttle threads 5 6, and spangles 7 or other analogous pierced or hollow ornaments,which are sustained in planes between the two crossing upper threads and the two crossing under threads and intermediately of the Width of the seam or about midway between the two pieces of fabric.

In producing the illustrated open-work seam in the preferred manner the two crossing needle-threads 3 4 are passed in loops 8 9, respectively, through one piece of fabric, near its edge, (say the fabric 1,) where said loops are caught and interlocked by the corresponding shuttle threads 5 6. Thence the four threads 3 l 5 6 are passed diagonally to the row of spangles 7, which are suitably sustained in planes to allow the needle-threads 3 4. to pass over them and the shuttle-threads 5 6 to pass under them. The needle-threads 3 4: are then passed downward in loops 1O 11 through the openings of the spangles,whereat said loops are interlocked by the two shuttlethreads 5 6, and from these interlocked loops 1O 11 the threads 3 4 5 6 continue their diagonal course across the seam to places a little past the edge of the other piece of fabric 2, through which the needlethreads 3 at are passed downward in loops 12 13, which are interlocked by the shuttlethreads 5 6. A reverse diagonal course is then given the four threads, and the needle-threads 3 4 are again passed downward in loops 10 ll through the spangle-openings, where they are interlocked by the shuttle-threads 5 6, and thence the threads continue the same reverse diagonal course back to the piece of fabric 1 and the needle-threads 3 4 are again passed in loops 8 0 through this piece of fabric, near its edge, and these loops are interlocked by the shuttle-threads 5 6, and so on continuously as the threads are laid in zigzag course along the seam. With this relative arrangement of the needle-threads, the shuttle threads, and the spangles it will be seen that the spangles are sustained flatwise and so that they cannot turn upon edge and that they are Very securely held in a substantially straight row at and along the center or intermediate portion of the seam and that the two pieces of fabric 1 2 are mutually connected and supported by the interlocked zigzag spangle supporting needle and shuttle threads of the seam.

The precise method or sequence of laying the zigzag threads to mutually support the fabric and the spangles or other ornaments is immaterial, provided the spangles or ornaments be held between two crossing portions of upper thread and two alined crossing portions of under thread, which upper and under threads are interlocked at the fabric at each edge of the seam and also at or through the openings of the spangles or ornaments, substantially as above described.

I claim as my invention 1. An embroidery-seam comprising fabric, two crossing upper threads and two alined crossing under threads fastened to the fabric at opposite edges of the seam, and spangles or analogous ornaments sustained flatwise in planes between the upper and under threads and intermediately of the width of the scam, the thread portions lying at one face of each spangle being looped through the openings of the spangles and interlocked thereat by passage through said loops of the other thread portions lying at the opposite faces of the spangles or ornaments, substantially as described.

2. An embroidery-seam comprising fabric, two crossing needle-threads and two alined crossing shuttle-threads ranging in zigzag course along the seam, and spangles or analogous ornaments sustained fiatwise by said threads intermediately of the Width of the seam and between two crossing portions of needle-threads and two crossing portions of shuttle-threads; the needle-threads being first looped through the fabric at one edge of the seam and thereat interlocked by the shuttlethreads,said needle-threads being then looped through the spangle-openings and thereat interlocked by the sh uttle-threads, said needlethreads then being looped through the fabric at the other edge of the seam and thereat interlocked by the shuttle-threads; said threads thence passing diagonally again to the spangle-openings and interlocking thereat and passing thence to and interlocking at the fabric, and so on along the seam, substantially as described.

3. An ornamental open-work embroideryseam comprising two separated and substantially parallel pieces of fabric, two crossing needle-threads and two alined crossing shuttle-threads ranging in zigzag course along the seam, and spangles or analogous ornaments sustained flatwise by said threads intermediately of the Width of the seam and between two crossing portions of needle-threads and two crossing portions of shuttle-threads; the needle-threads being first looped through one piece of fabric near its edge and thereat interlocked by the shuttle-threads, said needlethreads being then looped through the spangle-openings and thereat interlocked by the shuttle-threads, said needle-threads then being looped through the other piece of fabric near its edge and thereat interlocked by the shuttle-threads; said threads thence passing diagonally again to the spangle-openings and interlocking thereat and passing thence to and interlocking at the first piece of fabric, and so on along the seam, substantially as described.

CHARLES E. BENTLEY. Witnesses:

ELIZABETH STARKEY, Jnssn WALKER. 

